Our Mission & Vision

Our Mission:

Our mission is to bring Jesus Christ (through the power of the Holy Spirit) to a world that desperately needs God’s life-changing power. This will be accomplished through a simple yet radical plan – to live as if God lives inside of us – because He does! Wherever we go we take the Holy Spirit with us! In whatever we do we are empowered by God to achieve results! It is allowing God to shine through in order for His glory to be seen and His presence experienced!

What a large vision! What an opportunity!

We’ve been blessed to have a vision for the church that is bigger than anything we’ve ever done. The vision for 2010 and beyond is massive, and involves two critical areas:

1. The Church Vision – Possessing the Promises!

God has blessed us with visions, dreams and prophecies – from different people in different parts of the world. All of them confirm that God is wanting to bring us into a season of blessing. It is going to be a season of supernatural growth, building on the solid foundations of our church.

Some of the ways that we will bring the vision to life include:

• Being true to our Pentecostal & charismatic roots – exploring and welcoming the fullness of the Holy Spirit of God as He instructs us, leads us, comforts us and empowers us to do the works of Jesus Christ on this earth!
• It’s time to “own” or possess the promises of God regarding our congregation. All of the prophetic words that are yet unfulfilled – all God’s promises concerning us – we’re going to move into a new phase where we experience what God has promised us!
• We’re going to cultivate a God-centred focus, breaking the man-centred focus! It’s not about us!!! It’s about bringing all glory and honour back to God – because He deserves it!
• We’re going to move beyond the contraints of time and culture – our schedules and values will not be dictated by our mobile phones, calendars or watches! We’re going to follow God’s agenda and see it through to a magnificent release of God’s Spirit in a way we’ve never experienced before!
• We’re going to focus on what we’re called to do – and nothing else. We’re not called to social ministry, or to have many programs for all types of people with all types of needs - others in our area are already doing this well! We’re going to concentrate on what God has called us to do as a body of believers, and do it well! We’re called to spiritual breakthrough!
• We’re going to do everything in our power to replicate the atmosphere of Heaven!
• We’re going to give God the glory and honour He so richly deserves – and we’re going to make Jesus Christ famous in this land!

 2. The Outside Vision – Progressing the Vision!

The Lord has been moving on me in a way that I’ve never experienced before in the last six to eight months. Out of this journey God birthed in me a vision that is “outside the walls” of what people think of as “the church”. God spoke to me last year around July and said “I want you to go outside the walls”. I had no idea what it meant at the time – but when the vision came I started to understand the call of God and what He revealed to me.

God showed me a large building in Redland City packed with people who were experiencing the power of God to an awesome degree – people getting touched and changed by God, and healed from all manner of disease and injury. It was not a church building, and it wasn’t a church meeting. It was “outside the walls of the church” – and it was a worship experience where there were no time restraints. People were just spending time in God’s presence, and they were from all different denominations, countries and many were not even believers when they arrived.

Late in 2009 I found the building God had shown me in the vision – and I was amazed to see the extent of the property and how it was aligned with the vision God has given me. It is going to cost a lot of money – money we don’t have. I said to God “how can we possibly do this when our church is so small?” After a lot of wrestling, I got to the point where I feel that my job is not to worry about how it comes to pass, but to pray and believe in what God had shown me, and to heed the voice of the Lord and be obedient.

I soon realised that this is a Kingdom activity – the focus is not on the church (body of Christ) but on establishing the Kingdom of God. For years now I have maintained that Jesus never once preached about the gospel of the church; He preached about the gospel of the Kingdom! There is a difference between the two, and they overlap. This place that God will give us will bring people together outside of a traditional church venue – and allow people the freedom to find God in a real and life changing way without concerns about divisive doctrines and theological differences, and without all of the “roadblocks” that stop people from attending a church.

If you would like to know more, please feel free to contact me. If God moves you, please pray for the vision, and if you feel to help just send me an email. The congregation of Ormiston Christian Faith Church have agreed to fully support this vision. We’re now actively pursuing it in prayer and through other means. But we’re going to need a lot of help from believers everywhere. This is bigger than us, it’s a God-sized vision. Impossible in the natural? Absolutely. That’s what makes it so exciting, because what seems impossible to us is the province of God and His miraculous power!

God Bless and remember: God can do anything!

Pastor Paul Barfoot – January 2010